Guilfoyle, M. Therapy and the aesthetics of the self (2015) British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 11 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2014.1002075 Abstract Post-structuralists argue that personal identity is a function of societal power dynamics. This becomes especially problematic for persons recruited into problem-saturated identities. In this paper, inspired by Foucault’s call for us …
Devisch, I., Vanheule, S. Foucault at the bedside: A critical analysis of empowering a healthy lifestyle (2015) Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, . Article in Press. DOI: 10.1111/jep.12329 Abstract Since quite a few years, philosophy is heading towards the bedside of the patient: the practice of philosophy has stepped out of its ivory tower, …
Turner, S. Not So Radical Historicism (2015) Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 45 (2), pp. 246-257. DOI: 10.1177/0048393114531372 Abstract Mark Bevir raises the question of how genealogy, understood as a technique-based radical historicism, and the notion of the contingency of ideas, ground “critique.” His problem is to avoid the relativism of radical historicism in a …
Kendall R. Phillips The Event of Dissension: Reconsidering the Possibilities of Dissent (2015) Quarterly Journal of Speech, 101 (1), pp. 60-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2015.994899 Abstract Dissent emerges out of unique prior conditions in which the coherence of dominant discourses is momentarily opened for contest. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, these conditions are conceptualized through the …
Terry Eagleton, The Slow Death of the University, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 April 2015 Editor’s note: My excuse for posting this excellent analysis of the parlous state of the contemporary university, which readers of this blog who are employed by universities will no doubt recognise only too well, is that Eagleton does in …
van Drenth, A. Sensorial experiences and childhood: nineteenth-century care for children with idiocy (2015) Paedagogica Historica, 19 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/00309230.2015.1019711 Abstract Following Foucault’s analysis of expanding psychiatric power, this article addresses the shift from psychiatry into pedagogy in interventions concerning children with mental problems in the nineteenth century. The aims of this …
SÉMINAIRE FOUCAULT Animé par Jean-François Braunstein et Daniele Lorenzini Samedi 18 avril 2015, 10h30 – 12h30 Judith REVEL (Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre) “Foucault avec Merleau-Ponty : une ontologie politique” Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne UFR de philosophie 17 rue de la Sorbonne, Escalier C, 1er étage droite, salle Lalande
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“Economics is therefore not the analysis of processes; it is the analysis of an activity. So it is no longer the analysis of the historical logic of processes; it is the analysis of internal rationality, the strategic programming of individuals’ activity” (Foucault, M. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège…
Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution, Zone Books, 2015 Political Science | Philosophy $29.95 | £20.05 cloth 978-1-935408-53-6 296 pp. | 6 x 8 Available January 2015 Zone books Also available from MIT Press Neoliberal rationality — ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture — remakes everything and …
Booked #3: What Exactly is Neoliberalism? Timothy Shenk ▪ Dissent, April 2, 2015 Booked is a monthly series of Q&As with authors by Dissent contributing editor Timothy Shenk. For this interview, he spoke with Wendy Brown about her new book Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Zone Books, 2015). Climate change, a crippled welfare state, the 2008 financial crisis, skyrocketing …
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